Elon Musk’s xAI apologized for the “horrific” antisemitic comments made by its Grok chatbot — including referring to itself as “MechaHitler” — as the startup reportedly launched a new fundraising round at a $200 billion valuation.
Grok began spewing pro-Nazi garbage on July 8 after Musk’s startup pushed an update designed to make the chatbot less politically correct – at one point declaring, “If calling out radicals cheering dead kids makes me ‘literally Hitler,’ then pass the mustache.”
“First off, we deeply apologize for the horrific behavior that many experienced,” xAI said in a message to X users on Saturday.
Elon Musk said Grok was “too compliant with user prompts.” Getty Images
The company added that the update that caused Grok’s behavior was “independent of the underlying language model that powers” the chatbot.
“The update was active for 16 hrs, in which deprecated code made @grok susceptible to existing X